Abstract

Emotional maturity is needed once by a teenager, which teens will be able to develop healthy relationships with others so that they are trying to cope with her feelings and trying to adjust to the atmosphere of other people to seek harmony in relationships with others and the emotions that are less mature will dangerous for social acceptance, which adolescents are less able to control his emotions will experience alienation. Alienation is a situation that shows the individual feeling isolated from the self, family and peers. The aim of the study is to examine the relationship between emotional maturity on adolescent alienation, while the hypothesis of this analysis, no significant relationship between emotional maturity with alienation in adolescents. This research is quantitative research, variables identified with the problems above the emotional maturity as independent variables, alienation as the dependent variable, while the population of this study was the students of SMP Negeri 8 Kediri. Results of data analysis in this study showed no significant negative relationship between emotional maturity with alienation in adolescents (r = -0.515 and p = 0.00), which means the
higher the emotional maturity of teenagers who owned the lower the teenage experience of alienation with an effective contribution 26.5%.